Marketplace Morning Report

In less than 10 minutes, we'll get you up to speed on all the news you missed overnight. Throughout the morning, Marketplace's David Brancaccio will bring you the latest business and economic stories you need to know to start your day. And before U.S. markets open, you'll get a global markets update from the BBC World Service in London.
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Solid coverage for <30 min content
Feb 27
I’ve been contrasting the reporting from Fox to Marketplace for the last month. Fox consistently underreports federal perturbations. As someone that’s worked in the government and is in tech, whose personal network encompasses civil workers, the deep concern by domain experts across all domains is legitimately unprecedented yet garners little interest by conservative outlets. Marketplace has a specific interest in topics related to the economy. That is still the case. Reading through the negative reviews on Marketplace’s suite of podcasts, there’s a common thread: frustrations with political bias. It seems some listeners are jumping ship based on a belief that Marketplace is pushing a liberal agenda. This confuses me. The Trump administration has clearly expressed they are adopting an isolationist agenda while building relationships with nations we’ve been in contention with for many decades—at the cost of otherwise longstanding relationships with e.g. Europe, Canada, Mexico. This has consequences on our economy, which is now expressing increased volatility. How is discussing the consequences a liberal agenda? Meanwhile, Fox has *barely* begun discussing fed layoffs. Very frustrating when that’s a source of information I use as a common ground with family and friends. What I’d like to see more of from Marketplace: deeper research on analogous events and their outcomes / causality. Interviews with economists, sociologists, and historians to build reasonably priors. Longer-form content.
Chock full of ads
May 7
NPR / Public Media double dipping into private advertisers on top of all the free national tax payer money they receive. This podcast is nearly 20% or more of ads. Overmonetized but I guess you can get away with it having the name Marketplace.
Why Financially Inclined?
May 2
The continuous advertisements for the podcast Financially Inclined is killing me! Please no more!
Love the music
10/10/2024
Even if the news is not so good the creative music gets me dancing!! Love it.
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- CreatorMarketplace
- Years Active2006 - 2025
- Episodes69
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